List of the Participants of the Crimean Conference

List of the Participants of the Crimean Conference

Appendix 1

LIST OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE CRIMEAN CONFERENCE

  1. Mr. Oleg Afanasiev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  2. Ms. Kristina Afanasieva (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  3. Acad of RAAS, Rudolf M. Alexakhin: Vice-president of International Union of Radioecology, Director of Russian Institute of agricultural radiology and radioecology, RAAS, Obninsk, Russia.
  4. Mrs. Elena A. Alexandrova (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia)
  5. Dr. Elena Antonova (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  6. Prof. Edouard Azzam (New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center, New Jersey, USA)
  7. Prof. Michael Bader (Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Buch, Germany)
  8. Dr. Nikolay Belyaev (Dnepropetrovsk National University of Railway Engineering, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
  9. Prof. Victor S. Bezel (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  10. Prof. Yu. F. Bogdanov (N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  11. Dr. Alexandra Bogomazova (N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  12. Prof. Vladimir A. Bokov: Head of Geoecology department of Taurida National the Vernadsky University; Head of UNESCO Chair "Renewable energy and sustainable development", Simferopol, Ukraine
  13. Prof. Alexander Ya. Bolsunovsky (Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
  14. Acad. of RAS Vladimir N. Bol’shakov: Chief of Russian Committee on the UNESCO Program “Man and the Biosphere” under RAS Presidium; Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Ecology” of Ural Department of RAS; Director of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia
  15. Dr. Anton Buzdin (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  16. Prof. Arrigo Cigna: Past President of the International Union of Radioecology (Turin, Italy)
  17. Prof. Stefka Chankova: expert of Biosafety (Biosafety Clearing House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada); principle investigator of the Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
  18. Prof. Valentina Chorna (Dnepropetrovsk State Agrarian University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
  19. Prof. Eugeny V. Daev (St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia)
  20. Mr. Alexey V. Dikarev (Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Radioecology, RAAS, Obninsk, Russia)
  21. Prof. John W. Drake: Past President of the International Genetics Federation; former Editor-in-Chief of Genetics (the world’s leading journal of genetics); Principle Investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA.
  22. Prof. Yuri E. Dubrova (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
  23. Prof. Marco Durante: Director of Biophysics Department, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  24. Mrs. Tatiana A. Dutova (Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia)
  25. Corresponding Member, NAS of Ukraine Victor N. Egorov (Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas after A.O. Kovalevsky of NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine)
  26. Dr. Gudrun Erzgraber (Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Buch, Germany)
  27. Prof. Stanislav A. Geras’kin (Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Radioecology, RAAS, Obninsk, Russia)
  28. Prof. Michael D. Golubovsky (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  29. Mr. Nikolay G. Gorbushin (Medical Radiological Research Center, RAMS, Obninsk, Russia)
  30. Dr. Dmitry Gordenin (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA)
  31. Prof. Dmitry I. Gudkov (Institute of Hydrobiology, Kiev, Ukraine)
  32. Prof. Sergey B. Gulin: Head of Department of Radiation and Chemical Biology (A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine)
  33. Nikolay N. Kharytonov (State Agrarian University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
  34. Prof. Thomas Hinton: Leader of Group “Biota Dose Effects Modelling”, Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, St-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, France
  35. Dr. Yury Yu. Ilinsky (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  36. Acad. RAS Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov: Chief of the Coordination Council RAS on the problem “Ecology and Natural Resources”; Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Ecological Genetics”; Head of the Chair “Genetics and Selection” of St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia
  37. Dr. Elena Isaeva (Medical Radiological Research Center, RAMS, Obninsk, Russia)
  38. Dr. Sergey A. Karpenko: Director of Center of Technology for Sustainable Development, Feodosia, Ukraine
  39. Dr. Elena Khlestkina (Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  40. Dr. Igor M. Khokhutkin (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  41. Dr. Elena P. Khramova (Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  42. Ms. Elena Klimenko (Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany)
  43. Dr. Irina Klimkina (National Mining University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
  44. Dr. Nataliya A. Koltovaya (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  45. Prof. Vladislav V. Korjenevsky (National Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Ukraine)
  46. Prof. Vladimir G. Korolev: Director of Biophysics Department of St-Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, RAS, Gatchina, Russia
  47. Dr. Anton V. Korsakov (Bryansk State Technical University, Bryansk, Russia)
  48. Dr. Victoria L. Korogodina (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  49. Prof. Igor Kovalchuk (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada)
  50. Prof. Olga Kovalchuk: CIHR Chair in Gender and Health Board of Governors Research Chair, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  51. Dr. Irina Kozeretskaya (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine)
  52. Dr. Nina S. Kus’mina (N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  53. Dr. Vladimir A. Lapchenko (Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU), Feodosia, Ukraine
  54. Dr. Olga Lyanna (Dnepropetrovsk State Medical Academy Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
  55. DR. Alla I. Lypskaya (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research of NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine)
  56. Dr. Yulia A. Maklyuk (Chernobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology, Chernobyl, Ukraine)
  57. Mrs. Tatiana V. Marinenko (Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)
  58. Dr. Alexander V. Markov (Paleontological institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  59. Dr. Pavel M. Marosik (Institute of Genetics and Cytology at NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus)
  60. Mr. Alexey N. Moiseev (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia)
  61. Dr. Inna V. Molchanova (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  62. Mrs. Nadezhda N. Mordkovich (Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia)
  63. Dr. Alla. L. Morozova: Director of Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU, Feodosia, Ukraine)
  64. Prof. Irma B. Mosse (Institute of Genetics and Cytology at NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus)
  65. Prof. Carmel Mothersill: Director of Radiation and Environmental Science Centre; McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  66. Ms. Liliana Namolovan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  67. Mr. Alexander B. Nazarov (Chernobyl Radioecological Center, Chernobyl, Ukraine)
  68. Mrs. Valentina K. Novikova (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
  69. Dr. Natalia A. Orekhova (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  70. Dr. Ludmila P. Osipova (Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  71. Dr. Alla A. Oudalova (Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Radioecology, RAAS, Obninsk, Russia)
  72. Prof. D. Oughton (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway)
  73. Ms. Ekaterina Plusnina (Institute of Biology of the Komi Science Center of the UD RAS, Syktyvkar, Russia)
  74. Dr. Vera N. Pozolotina: Deputy of Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Ecology” of the Ural Department of RAS; Chief of Ecology Lab of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia
  75. Dr. Ilya Prokopiev (Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolitozone SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia)
  76. Dr. Olga Pronina (National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine)
  77. Dr. Larisa N. Rasina (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  78. Prof. Michael Resnick: Head, Chromosome Stability Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA
  79. Prof. Michael Rosemann (Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany)
  80. Prof. Susan Rosenberg: Cullen Endowed Professor of Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
  81. Prof. Alexander V. Rubanovich: Chief of the Laboratory of Ecological Genetics, N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia
  82. Dr. Nadezhda I. Ryabokon (Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus)
  83. Dr. Lubov’ E. Sal’nikova (N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  84. Prof. Colin Seymour (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
  85. Ms. Julia Soshkina (St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia)
  86. Dr. Elena Stepchenkova (St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia)
  87. Prof. Boris P. Surinov (Medical Radiological Research Center, RAMS, Obninsk, Russia)
  88. Mr. Valentine V. Suslov (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  89. Dr. Victoria G. Tsytsugina (A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas NAS of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine)
  90. Dr. Olga V. Usmanova (Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan )
  91. Dr. Valentina Vateryga (National Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Ukraine)
  92. Dr. Olga P. Vasilenko (Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)
  93. Prof. Cristina Viera (University Lyon 1, Lyon, France)
  94. Dr. Lidia E. Yalkovskaya (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, UD RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
  95. Dr. Ludmila P. Zakharenko (Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  96. Dr. Marina V. Zheltonozhskaya (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Researches, NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine)
  97. Mrs. Anna Zhuk (St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia)
  98. Mrs. Larisa V Znamenskaya (Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU), Feodosia, Ukraine
  99. Dr. Nickolay Zyuzikov (Centre for Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Dundee, UK)

Appendix 2

LIST OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE ROUND TABLE ON

“THE PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY IN CRIMEA”

  1. Mr. Eugene G. Bubnov: Chief, Committee on Environment Protection of AR Crimea
  2. Prof. Victor S. Tarasenko: President, Crimean Academy of Sciences and Chief of the association “Ecology and World” of AR Crimea, Simferopol, Ukraine
  3. Prof. Vladimir A. Bokov: Head of Geoecology department of Taurida National the Vernadsky University; Head of UNESCO Chair "Renewable energy and sustainable development", Simferopol, Ukraine
  4. Dr. Alla L. Morozova: Director, Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU, Feodosia, Ukraine
  5. Dr. Natalia A. Mil’chakova: Senior Staff Scientist, A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas of NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine
  6. Dr. Tatiana V. Bobra: Assistant Professor of the TNU Chair “Geoecology” and Scientific secretary of UNESCO Chair, Simferopol, Ukraine
  7. Dr. Larissa V. Znamenskaya: Scientific Secretary of the Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU, Feodosia, Ukraine
  8. Dr. Vladimir A. Lapchenko: Chief, Laboratory on Background Ecological Monitoring of Karadag Nature Reserve of NASU
  9. Dr. Elena B. Martynyuk: Taurida National Vernadsky University
  10. Ms. Olga V. Parubets: postgraduate student of Geoecology Chair of Taurida National Vernadsky University
  11. Mr. Roman V. Gorbunov: postgraduate student of Geoecology Chair of Taurida National Vernadsky University
  12. Dr. Natalia Yu. Mirzoeva, A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas of NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine
  13. Dr. Ludmilla V. Malakhova, A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas of NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine
  14. Dr. Larissa V. Gulina, A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas of NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Appendix 3

THE KARADAG NATURE RESERVE OF THE NAS OF UKRAINE

The Karadag Nature Reserve of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was established on Aug. 9, 1979 by decision № 386 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the site of the T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Biological Station, founded in 1914 (and since 1963 called the Karadag Department of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, Academy of Sciences of USSR). The total area of the Reserve is 2,874.2 hectares including 809.1 hectares of the Black Sea. It occupies a Karadag Mountain Area.

The history of the Karadag Biological Station is connected with the names of many Russian and Soviet scientists. Here worked such prominent researchers as geologists A.P. Pavlov, F.U. Levinsong-Lessing, A.E. Fersman, and D.E. Sokolov, botanist D.P. Syreyschikov, zoologist I.I. Puzanov, hydrobiologists and directors of the station Professor V.L. Pauli and Professor K.A. Vinogradov, physiologists E.M. Kreps and G.E. Shulman, and many others.

The Karadag Mountain Area is located in the eastern part of the Main Ridge of the Crimean Mountains in the border area of Feodosia district of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine).

Karadag originated as a dormant underwater volcano of the Jurassic period, which was raised to the surface by subsequent geological processes along with erosion of softer structures. Volcanic rocks compose Mt. Svyataya (height 576m) and the Beregovoy Range, which includes several mountain ranges: Karagach (333m), the Haba-Tepe (440m), Magnitny Range (378m), Kok-kaja (314m), and several dome-shaped summits.

Karadag consists of lavas and tuffs, magma and lava flows, breccia dykes, mineral veins, and volcanic bombs. The basic forms of weathering (exotic buttes, towers, poles, spades) are very common. One can find about 50 minerals that are rare derivatives of quartz.

A compound of forest (oak fluffy oriental hornbeam, juniper, high forest, etc.), forest-steppe, and sub-Mediterranean vegetation are typical. Flora is represented by approximately 3000 species of plants. Among the 1,176 vascular plants, 53 endemics are known, three with restricted localization (hawthorn Poyarkovo, Eremurus Junge and Anthemis Tranzscheliana), and hundreds of rare and endangered species. Some 80 species of plants are recorded in the Red Book of Ukraine, 33 species in the European Red List, 19 species in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), eight species in the List of the Berne Convention, 23 species in the International Convention CITES, and one kind of moss in the Red Data Book of European bryophytes. The large variety of plant communities covers broad-leaved forests, herb-feather-grass steppe, shiblyak and friganoid steppe communities, and juniper and pistachio-oak woodlands.

There are more than 5500 species in the fauna of the Reserve. Of these, 135 are in the Red Book of Ukraine, 75 in the List of the Bonn Convention, 196 in the Berne Convention, 53 in the CITES convention, 22 in the List of the IUCN, and 29 in the European Red List. Within the Reserve there are 35 species of mammals, 236 species of birds, and 232 species of spiders. The discovery and description of new genera and species of animals within the Reserve continues. Foxes, wild pigs, deer, stone martens, squirrels, rabbits, hedgehogs, small shrews, small bats, Crimean lizards, rock lizards, and Mediterranean geckos can be found. Among the birds are jays, chaffinches, oxeyes, pheasants, starlings, and blackbirds. The rare animals of the Reserve include leopard whip snakes, peregrine falcons (listed in the IUCN Red List), green cormorants, the empuza mantis, the ascalaphus fly, and various carabid beetles (included in the Red Book of Ukraine).

Within the Reserve there are places where one can encounter the ancient Mediterranean representatives of the animal kingdom, relics of the Jurassic period, such as soil mites which amount to 300 species. Many rare species of birds use the Karadag Reserve for the winter stay; these include field harriers, black vultures, and great bustards. Migrating yellow herons, serpent eagles, golden eagles, the rare black stork, and vultures are recorded.

The sea organisms of the Reserve reflect the great variety of the flora of the Black sea and currently number 556 species, or 31% of the flora of the Black Sea, and 1050 species of fauna, or 43% of the entire Black Sea fauna. Forests of red, green and brown algae serve as breeding grounds for many fish species: Black Sea scad, Black Sea goatfish, tarwhine, grouper, etc. Altogether, there are 114 species of fish and over 500 species of benthic animals in the sea areas. Among the mammals there are three species of dolphins in the Red Data Book of Ukraine: a bottlenose dolphin, the common dolphin endemic to the Black Sea, and porpoise (sea pig).

The Reserve has one of Europe’s largest colonies of bats, represented by a three-color myotis, a species protected by the Bern and Bonn Conventions and included in the Red Data Book of Ukraine.

Scientific work in the Reserve is aimed at studying the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems of the south-eastern Crimea. The territory of the Reserve is one of the major preservation centers of biological diversity of the Crimea. In 2001, the complex of plants and animals as well as the old book and manuscript fund of the library of the Reserve were declared a National Treasure of Ukraine.

The “Aquatic-rock complex of Karadag” was included in the List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in 2004.

The Reserve is a scientific institution, the territory of which is important for basic researches in the natural sciences conducted by diverse experts from academic institutions of Ukraine and Russia and students of establishments of higher education; an educational base for training (a popular place for practical training); an interesting object of environmental education for numerous visitors who can learn about the Reserve using the special permitted routes of ecological trails, and can visit the Museum of Karadag.

The volcanic component of the geological structures, the rare mineral and petrographic varieties, complex and exotic terrain of Karadag, landscape beauty, proximity to marine waters, unique biocenoses and ecological complexes, and the immediate vicinity of the cultural heritage landmarks in the area are important reasons for the proposed inclusion of this unique natural complex in the World Heritage List.

Scientific Secretary of the Karadag

Nature Reserve NAS of Ukraine

PhD. N.S. Kostenko

Address: Karadag Nature Reserve NAS of Ukraine, str. Nauka 24, s. Kurortnoe, t. Feodosia, AR Crimea, Ukraine, e-mail: . URL:

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